Hi, I noticed on both the 6x-2.0 build and the 1.3 build that my primary links now are surrounded by a disconcerting box of color when I hover over them (green in 2.0, pink in 1.3). They used to just have pretty underline. Perhaps this has to do with the new menuing system and will eventually right itself, but I thought it worth mentioning.

My site modifies the basic layout slightly (change the header to 300px height, sets the logo to 250px height and then uses a 960x300px image as the logo. This has the effect of pushing the primary link menu bar to the bottom of my image, right where I want it). So perhaps the problem is unique to how I'm using an image as a background for the primary link menu bar and if I was using the theme normally, I wouldn't have the problem. But still, it seems like I can't be the only person using a full image for my header, so I thought it was worth letting you know.

Also might as well mention one other knit: When using the "most recent poll" sidebar widget with a poll question that wraps to a second line, the second line overlaps the poll results.

Anyway, thanks for the great work. Without you a lot of us (me, at the very least) would have to work a hell of a lot harder to create sites that don't look half as good.

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Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented
Assigned: Unassigned » Jeff Burnz
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

The "disconcerting" box of colour is a hover background, mostly for the new Superfish Drop menus if you choose to use them. They change colour depending on your choice of colours using the colour picker or one of the preconfigured colour schemes.

You can always edit the CSS to change it to a basic underline for primary links if you want.

Not sure what is going on with the poll, will take a look in due course.

To fix the poll title, change line 316 of style.css from:

.block .title {...}

to...

.block h2.title {...}

If you are using any colour scheme other than Girly Pink you will need to re-save your theme settings to see the effect.

I will commit the fix to HEAD and it will be part of the next dev release.

One thing, please submit multiple issues as new threads, that way they are easier to manage.

mbarron2896’s picture

mbarron2896 commented

You are a scholar and a gentlemen, sir. Thanks!

(and sorry about the multiple items in one post.)

-Martin

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

No probs.

I'm looking at this again and thinking you're right on this, the big chunky hover background works well for the Superfish drop menus, but when its just primary links it does look a bit naff if not OTT - meaning the hover background doesn't really convey anything when its just a primary link, where as with the drop menu it makes it very clear you are hovering the correct link you want to click.

Nice to see if any other feedback comes in for this, as I am strongly considering the simpler text-decoration: underline for primary links.